mtRandom( seed = Null ) - returns single random number (scalar) in the range [0,1)
mtRandomA( seed = Null ) - returns array of random numbers in the range of [0,1)
seed is random generator seed value. If you don't specify one, the random number generator
is automatically initialized with current time as a seed that guarantees unique sequence
Both functions use Mersene Twister mt19973ar-cok algorithm.
(Copyright (C) 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura.)
Mersene Twister is vastly superior to C-runtime pseudo-random generator
available via Random() function.
It has a period of 2^19973 = approx 2.9*10^6012 For more information visit:
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html
See also:
M. Matsumoto and T. Nishimura, "Mersenne Twister: A 623-Dimensionally Equidistributed Uniform Pseudo-Random Number Generator", ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1998, pp 3--30.
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